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Buggin' out! Volkswagen to kill production of iconic Beetle in 2019

Leticia Stanley |Sunday, September 16, 2018

Volkswagen to end production of the Beetle next year

Volkswagen is finally ending production of its iconic Beetle, ending an 80-year reign for a auto that began life under Hitler's Third Reich, became a mainstay of popular culture through the 1960s and 1970s before being revived with an updated model in 1997.

Production of the distinctive Beetle vehicle is to end amid a decline in sales.

Even though it looks as though the Beetle as we know it is coming to the end of its time, it's hard to imagine this being the end of the Beetle name in the Volkswagen portfolio for good.

Okay, enough eulogizing. Here's the bad news:Volkswagen has announced that it is going to stop the production of Beetle from next year.

The Beetle's legacy harkens back to the 1930s, when Ferdinand Porsche, the prolific engineer behind the famed luxury vehicle brand, made a decision to design a "People's Car" or "Volkswagen" in German. The Beetle with the license plate "LMW 28IF" on the cover of The Beatles' Abbey Road album was sold at an auction for $23,000 in 1986.

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